Trump says bilateral deals are better than TPP

Published April 18, 2018 11:42pm ET



President Trump said Wednesday he doesn’t want the U.S. to enter into a resurrected Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying he would prefer to have bilateral trade deals unless “they offered us a deal I can’t refuse.”

Trump withdrew from the TPP after negotiations under President Barack Obama with a group of 11 other countries, but told farm-state officials last week that he instructed his economic adviser Larry Kudlow and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to re-examine joining TPP.

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